A method includes receiving, by a mobile device, a notification, executing, in response to receiving the notification, a data collection application over a time interval, and requesting, by the data collection application, sensor measurements from an operating system of the mobile device. The sensor measurements are collected prior to receiving the notification and before execution of the data collection application. The method also includes receiving, by the data collection application and from the operating system, a set of sensor measurements and transmitting, by the data collection application, the sensor measurements to a server during the time interval. The data collection application terminates upon expiration of the time interval.
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2. The method of claim 1, wherein the data collection application terminates upon expiration of the time interval.
3. The method of claim 1, wherein identifying the one or more events comprises detecting the one or more events based on the set of sensor measurements.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification is received, by the mobile device, from a server at dynamic intervals based on previously transmitted sensor measurements.
6. The method of claim 1, further comprising generating the notification by a local process of the mobile device based on an increase in a likelihood of motion of the mobile device.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein the set of sensor measurements includes sensor measurements collected between a first time when the notification was received and a second time when a previous notification was received.
10. The method of claim 1, wherein a size of the time interval is based on previously transmitted sensor measurements.
11. The method of claim 1, further comprising instructing the operating system of the mobile device to store additional sensor measurements after receiving the set of sensor measurements.
12. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more events includes at least one of: a hard braking event, a vehicle collision, a missed drive, an indication of distracted driving, an indication of mobile phone use, an indication of speeding, or an indication of aggressive driving.
13. The method of claim 1, wherein the notification is received by the mobile device from a remote cloud server or from an internal process of the mobile device.
15. The method of claim 14, further comprising transmitting, by the data collection application, at least a portion of the first set of sensor measurements to a server.
17. The method of claim 14, further comprising detecting one or more events based on at least a portion of the first set of sensor measurements, wherein the one or more events occurred during collection of the first set of sensor measurements.
18. The method of claim 14, wherein the motion sensor is a virtual sensor configured to generate the indication based on measurements collected from an accelerometer.
20. The method of claim 13, wherein the data collection application is executed on the mobile device.
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